Anatomy was an important part of the tuition of young artists, giving them an understanding of the human body and its skeletal and muscular structures. Three-dimensional models of flayed figures (écorchés), in bronze, wood, wax and plaster, played a major part in this training.
Physical description
Anatomical figure demonstrating human muscular structure. Figure has his left hand raised.
Place of Origin
Italy (made)
Date
ca. 1580 (made)
Artist/maker
Cigoli, Ludovico, born 1559 - died 1613 (after, maker)
Materials and Techniques
Bronze
Dimensions
Height: 62 cm
Object history note
Given by Dr. W. L. Hildburgh, F. S. A., 1956.
Historical significance: Anatomy was an important tuition of young artists, giving them an understanding of the human body and its skeletal and muscular structures. Three-dimensional models of flayed figures (écorgés), in bronze, wood, wax and plaster, played a major part in this training.
Descriptive line
Statuette, Bronze, écorché of a man, after Ludovico Cigoli (1559-1613), Italy, ca. 1580
Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
Kornell, Monique, in Bignanini, Ilaria and Postle, Martin, The Artist's Model, exh. cat., Nottingham 1991, p. 96, fig 7
Amerson Price, L., Jr. The Problem of the Ecorge: A Catalogue Raisonne of Models and Statuettes from the Sixteenth Century and Later Periods, Phd thesis, Pennsylvania State University, 1975, pp. 153-211, cat. nos. 6-12
for full entry on the model
Trusted, Marjorie, ed. The Making of Sculpture. The Materials and Techniques of European Sculpture. London: 2007, pp. 12-13, pl. 4
Exhibition History
The Anatomy of Gender: Arts of the Body in Early Modern Europe (Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) 03/01/2006-12/03/2006)
Heavenly Bodies: Sculptural Responses to the Human Form (Burghley House, Stamford 01/04/2006-29/10/2006)
L' Écorché (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen 15/01/1977-28/02/1977)
Spectacular Bodies (Hayward Gallery 19/10/2000-14/01/2001)
The Rival of Nature (National Gallery (London) 10/06/1975-28/09/1975)
Materials
Bronze
Categories
Sculpture; Bronze
Collection code
SCP
